Merck CEO Says ‘I Feel a Responsibility to Take a Stand Against Intolerance and Extremism’
President Donald Trump wasted no time in slamming the CEO of a to drug manufacturer who just resigned from the President’s Manufacturing Council over Trump’s refusal to denouncing white supremacism.Â
At 8 AM Merck posted a tweet from its CEO, Kenneth Frazier (photo, right). “As CEO of Merck and as a matter of personal conscience, I feel a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism,” Frazier said. “America’s leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal.”
Less than an hour later, Trump attacked, in a strange and almost incoherent tweet:
On Saturday, after 32-year old Heather Heyer was murdered in an act of domestic terrorism by a neo-Nazi driving his car into a crowd of protestors opposing white supremacy. Police have since charged him with her murder.Â
But President Trump, who took a long time to denounce the violence that began Friday night at the University of Virginia, then moved into Saturday’s rally attended by white supremacists, white nationalists, Neo-Nazis, and members of the so-called “alt-right” who held a rally in Charlottesville, refused to denounce white supremacy in a speech on Saturday. Asked specifically if he would denounce white nationalism, Trump refused to answer.
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